DAY-TIME
The time during which there is the light of day, as distinguished from night or night-time. That portion of the twentyfour hours during which a man’s person and countenance are distinguishable. Trull
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The time during which there is the light of day, as distinguished from night or night-time. That portion of the twentyfour hours during which a man’s person and countenance are distinguishable. Trull
Of more abundant or especial grace. Townsh. PI. 18.
Conditionally ; provisionally ; in anticipation of future need. A phrase applied to proceedings which are taken ex parte or provisionally, and are allowed to stand as well done for the present,
(For restoring chattels.) A writ to secure the return specifically of chattels detained from the owner. Cowell.
L. Fr. Of common right; that is, by the common law. Co. Litt. 142a.
Writ for admitting a guardian. Reg. Orig. 936, 198.
Of being on a journey. A species of essoin. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 119.
Writ for levying the expenses of knights. A writ directed to the sheriff for levying the allowance for knights of the shire in parliament Reg. Orig. 1016, 102.
Writ concerning an heir ravished and carried away. A writ which anciently lay for a lord who, having by right the wardship of his tenant under age could not obtain his body,
For payment of the amount adjudged. A term applied in the Scotch law to bail to the action, or special bail.
Of the half tongue; half of one tongue and half of another. This phrase describes that species of jury which, at common law, was allowed in both civil and criminal cases where
In no tenement which is held for a term of years is there an avail of homage; but there is the oath of fealty. Co. Litt. 076.
Writ for acquitting or releasing pledges. A writ that lay for a surety, against him for whom he had become surety for the payment of a certain sum of money at a
Writ of right, of reasonable part. A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in fee- simple, where one
The writ of statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 1466.
Writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ which lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them entered into it with a great number of laymen, and
In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws.
A Stock or fund representing money borrowed bv a company or public body, it) England, and charged on the whole or part of its property.
A debt or obligation complete when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required till some future period.
A tithing, composed of ten neighboring families. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 13; 1 Bl. Comm. 114.